The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Medicare for All expands Medicare, does not obliterate it, as Donald Trump says

President Donald Trump has picked up a time-tested Democratic attack line. "A vote for Democrats is also a vote to destroy Medicare," Trump said at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on Oct. 26. When Democrats said Republicans "voted to end Medicare" in 2011, we called it the Lie of the Year. Trump is also wrong here. In rallies across the country, Trump has been claiming health...

Seema Verma isn’t a well-known member of President Donald Trump’s administration, but she is an important one. As the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Verma is in charge of overseeing health programs that over 100 million Americans rely on. So it seemed like an odd choice for Trump’s Medicare chief to call […]